Matisse, Henri; Teriade ed.

VERVE: Vol. IV, No. 13: 'DE LA COULEUR' [Matisse, La Chute d'Icare]

Editions de la Revue Verve, 1943. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. COMPLETE with both original Matisse lithographs--title page and La Chute d'Icare. With the very scarce original manilla dust jacket with Matisse's green drawing matching the green and white paper-cutout lithographed paper-over-board covers (which are often mistaken for the dust jacket). Tall 4to, 35.5cm. Covers torn along front hinge about 3', dj torn 5' at the same, small puncture 2/3 up the spine. Internal contents exceedingly clean and sharp. Matisse's pochoir study of The Fall of Icarus was his first of two, the latter appearing in Jazz, published in 1945 by Teriade. Created in 1943 with Nazi troops occupying the streets outside his apartment in Paris, it has been suggested that they were the referent for his falling image. 'In the final decades of his life, Matisse invented a new form of art, the cut-out. Working with scissors and sheets of gouache-painted paper, he cut various shapes—from the organic to the geometric—and arranged them into lively compositions. Cut-outs formed the prototypes for the printed images ... which Matisse insisted remain absolutely faithful to the original colors. In response, the publisher [Teriade] turned to pochoir, a stencil printing technique in which the same gouaches could be used.' (MOMA). VERY GOOD / Very Good. Item #510523
ISBN: B001AS6OEC

Price: $1,800.00